Insecurity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Insecurity \In`se*cu"ri*ty\, n.; pl. {Insecurities}. [Pref. in-
     not + security : cf. LL. insecuritas, F. insecurite.]
     1. The condition or quality of being insecure; lack of
        safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building
        liable to fire; insecurity of a debt.
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     2. The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; lack of
        confidence.
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              With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects . .
              . unto arbitrary calculations.        --Sir T.
                                                    Browne.
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              A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts
              become objects of speculation.        --Burke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  insecurity
       n 1: the state of being subject to danger or injury [ant: {security}]
       2: the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and
          insecure

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "insecurity":
     chanciness, criticalness, danger, delicacy, desultoriness,
     doubtfulness, dubiousness, hazard, hazardousness, infirmity,
     insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, peril, perilousness,
     precariousness, risk, riskiness, shakiness, shiftiness,
     shiftingness, slipperiness, speculativeness, sword of Damocles,
     ticklish business, ticklishness, totteriness, touchiness,
     treacherousness, treachery, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness,
     uncertainty, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unhealthiness,
     unpredictability, unreliability, unsafeness, unsolidity,
     unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsubstantiality,
     unsureness, untrustworthiness